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Month: October 2022

Blast Shadows

Blast Shadows

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Them good old Armageddon Blues are back! Thanks to Putin (and a little help from poor Joe) the mutual annihilation lifestyle is back. Soon concerned Punks will be installing bomb shelters in their back yards. Kids will be drilled at school (ducking under your desk, etc.), radiation pills will be available at Walgreens. What else? I frankly don’t remember all the doomsday buy-it-before-it’s-too-late shit. Except the movies were pretty good…”Fail Safe” “On The Beach” “The Bedford Incident” and especially “Doctor…

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Celebrity Serial Killer

Celebrity Serial Killer

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The Underworld… I have this fascination with Outlaws. Bank Robbers like John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson. Mob Bosses like Lucky Luciano and Vincent (the Chin) Gigante. Big Time grifters like Bernie Madoff. I even find myself cheering their exploits. And yet In spite of my amoral instincts, I’m more or less law abiding. I would not rob a bank at my age. Or at any age, for that matter. I would not assault anybody, either. I did some bad…

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Cliff Notes For Hard Times

Cliff Notes For Hard Times

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Times are hard but are we in Hard Times? It was easy to answer in 1929. The stock market collapsed and the fat cats dove out skyscraper windows. Nobody had it figured but they could see the zombie hordes massing. Then, like a mustard gas creeping across no man’s land, the bad shit just kind of spread over everybody…bank closures…Hooverville’s growing like boom towns…long lines at soup kitchens. As crops failed across the Midwest, dust clouds the size of Oklahoma…

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